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Homelessness 193
and mother also, not alone for social gatherings
but for clubs for self-improvement, meetings,
lectures, committees; one evening after an-
other, just at the time which she should be de-
voting herself to her children who have been
occupied in the morning at school.
The ever-growing social life, the incessant
extension of club and out-of-door life, result
in the mother sending her children as early
as possible to school, even when there is no-
thing but the conditions above mentioned to
prevent her from giving the children their first
instruction herself. As a rule the present
generation of mothers who have had school
training could do this quite well, in the case
of children who do not need the social stimulus
of the school. Indeed before the school time
begins, and in the hours out of school, children
are as a rule taken by a maid servant to walk
or to skate and so on. Children of the upper
classes in most cases receive just as much, per-
haps more, of their education from the nur-
sery maid or from the school than from the
mother. The father need not be mentioned
at all, for as a rule he is an only occasional
and unessential factor in the education of the
child.
Many will say by way of objection, that at
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